Self-imposed Sentence Examples

In each case their " loneliness " is largely self-imposed.

According to their website, although they don't have to meet any U.S. Food & Drug Administration guidelines regarding sodium, they state "we maintain a self-imposed guideline to ensure great taste and good health..."

Our self-imposed prohibition against pursuing our tips once given limited our learning which sources produced the best results.

F His point was that there are no things in themselves different from minds or acting on them; that man is no product of things; nor does his thinking arise from passive sensations caused by things; nor is the end of his existence attainable in a world of things; but that he is the absolute free activity constructing his own world, which is only his own determination, his self-imposed limit, and means to his duty which allies him with God.

About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.

Lavigerie, however, continued his self-imposed task, refused the archbishopric of Lyons, which was offered to him by the emperor, and won his point.

It was during the period 1841-1849, when he had no legal duty, except the self-imposed one of occasionally hearing Scottish appeals in the House of Lords, that the unlucky dream of literary fame troubled Lord Campbell's leisure.'

In such a case there is resort to a controlling authority, whether self-imposed (like the divine Pharaoh of the Amarna age), or mutually agreed (as Mahomet and the Arabian clans).

The kidnapping was particularly egregious so we broke our self-imposed rule against staying away from case where precise times are not known.

Coupled with this tight schedule was a self-imposed training regimen so vigorous he sur­prised himself with its intensity.

The operator launched the filters with great fanfare last week, five months ahead of the mobile phone industry's self-imposed deadline.

Little is really known about the Elven Isles because of their self-imposed isolation.

Sometimes, as a self-imposed penance, he would stand up to his neck in a lake of cold water, reciting Scripture.

The Campaign's self-imposed remit is to work for the introduction of land value taxation in the UK.

It is partly self-imposed, partly the result of global success.

Bacon seems indeed to have been a lawyer of the first order, with a keen scientific insight into the bearings of isolated facts and a power of generalization which admirably fitted him for the self-imposed task, unfortunately never completed, of digesting or codifying the chaotic mass of the English law.

The Campaign 's self-imposed remit is to work for the introduction of land value taxation in the UK.

The lengthy letter, written in self-imposed exile in the UK, is now doing the rounds in email form.

Thursday 2nd March 2006 Meeting a self-imposed deadline could give you a headache.

Only the lonely None of these, however, compares to the self-imposed isolation brought about by playing Civ III.

The idea is to escape from the mostly self-imposed limitations to find a lasting freedom.

I'll also just mention a couple of self-imposed restrictions on this series of articles.

With a little preparation and by following some self-imposed (and sometimes state imposed) rules, you can increase your odds of driving safely.

Even after his self-imposed eviction, he claimed that he was still very much in love with the 22-year old and that he had "made the right decision" choosing her over Chelsea.

In some cases of acute sleep deprivation, the lack of adequate rest is self-imposed.

This global responsibility makes the lion feel guilty whenever he doesn't feel as though he's living up to his self-imposed duties.

It must then struggle to break free from its self-imposed prison to become the free and beautiful creature that the world stands still to observe and admire.

The solitary pounding of the pavement during a jog or the self-imposed isolation of standing in a corner lifting weights can get a bit tedious, especially for an extroverted person who thrives in the company of others.

Though she claims she loves to be the center of attention and party like a rockstar she leads a self-imposed celibate lifestyle.

With her two Emmys you would think that her climb to the top of the Hollywood ladder would be over, but at the same time, it was that climb and being on the self-imposed Hollywood "D" list that garner the comedian so much success.

He led Russia from its self-imposed exile to become one of the strongest national sides in Europe.